Bianca Little earns Charles A. Strom Engineering Award

VERONA -- The Mohawk Valley Engineers Executive Council has selected Madison-Oneida BOCES student Bianca Little as one of this year's recipients of the Charles A. Strom Engineering Award, for students who show outstanding talent toward a career in engineering.

She will receive the award and $500 prize at the Mohawk Valley Technical Awards Banquet Thursday in New Hartford.

Little is a senior in the BOCES Engineering Science program, taught by David Hale. Little, a Vernon-Verona-Sherrill student, plans to attend SUNY Institute of Technology next year to study civil engineering.

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The award is named for Charles Strom, an electrical engineer in the Mohawk Valley who made many contributions to the local engineering profession and engineering students in the region. Six high school seniors in the Mohawk Valley and St. Lawrence region received the award this year.

At BOCES, Little is a member of the National Technical Honor Society and served as an assistant at a summer engineering camp last year. At VVS High School, Little is in the school band, Spanish Club and Student Council, and she is in the top 10 percent of her graduating class. Outside of school, she studies ballet at the John Hayes O'Neill Studio of Dance and works at Nicky Doodles in Verona.